Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City last week. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated former Mayor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Curtis Silwa, the Republican candidate, in an election with high voter turnout. Our analysts rated media coverage of Mamdani’s win in our Topic of the Week.

The most fact-based and minimally biased coverage from our content set came from an article on the ABC News website. The article focuses on Mamdani’s rise in popularity to “make history” and secure the mayoral win, noting that he will be the city’s first Muslim, African-born and South Asian mayor. At 34, he’s also the second youngest mayor in the city’s history, the first immigrant mayor since 1974 and the first bearded mayor since 1913. Analysts placed the article in the “middle/balanced” category of bias and the “mix of fact reporting and analysis” category of reliability.

Scoring slightly lower was an article from Newsweek. The reporting focuses on the election itself, including poll numbers, voter tallies and the backgrounds of Mamdani and his top challenger, Cuomo. Like the article from ABC, analysts found the article to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis.” But it received a “skews left” bias rating because it included quotes about Mamdani’s win only from prominent Democrats and Mamdani supporters.

Analysts rated an article from The New Yorker as “analysis” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias. The lengthy story, titled “The Mamdani Era Begins,” goes back years to look at Mamdani’s career and rise to popularity. Analysts found the reporting to be complete but clearly in support of Mamdani and his platform, which led to its lower bias rating.

The two videos analyzed by our team received similar reliability scores, in the category of “opinion,” but converse bias scores. On the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,” the results of the election are presented, and then a panel (Bartiromo, Adam Johnson and Emily Sturge) discusses Mamdani’s win and the promises he made to voters. The panel expresses skepticism that he has the authority to implement the policies he promised and characterizes him as “anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-police.” The video received a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

On The Breakfast Club, host Charlamagne the God gives his “Donkey of the Day” to CNN’s Van Jones for calling Mamdani’s victory speech “divisive.” The host disagrees, applauding the speech and congratulating Mamdani for “challenging capitalism and authoritarianism strategy.” He says Mamdani was rightly celebrating his win, and Jones should not criticize that. “The language of politics is dead, and Donald Trump killed it,” he declares. Panelist Mehdi Hasan also weighs in, agreeing that the speech by Mamdani, whom he credits for creating a “multiracial, multicultural, multi-income coalition,” is not divisive. Analysts gave the video a bias rating of “hyper-partisan left.”

The lowest-rated coverage from our content set came from an article by American Thinker. The tone of the article is evident in the headline, “Zohran the Barbarian Takes New York,” and in the lead, “The Islamification of the West is happening everywhere.” The writer, J.B. Shurk, calls Mamdani a “terrorist-sympathizing communist” and declares that anyone who experienced the 9/11 attacks “should feel queasy about what just happened in New York.” He makes numerous insults about Muslims and dire predictions about the West because of the election of Mamdani in New York City and Sadiq Khan (whom he calls “Genghis Khan”) in London. Analysts found the reporting to be full of hyperbole, insults and unfounded claims, rating it as “containing inaccurate info” with a “most extreme right” bias.

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